Justices Need Not Revisit Tribal Jurisdiction Issue, California Tribe Argues

Mealey's (October 4, 2019, 1:12 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Supreme Court review is not needed to decide if a California tribal court can hear the tribe’s fraud claims against its former administrator because a tribe’s jurisdiction over nonmembers has been decided already by the high court’s precedents, the tribe and its court and chief judge tell the Supreme Court in their Oct. 3 brief in opposition to certiorari (Duanna Knighton v. Cedarville Rancheria of Northern Paiute Indians, et al., No. 19-131, U.S. Sup.)....